Pp. 19-29 contain 200 lines: (line 1), "Now to the drama turn, oh! motley sight;" (line 200), "And urge thy bards, to gain a name like thine." The last line of p. 29 is numbered 520, and the date 1808 is subscribed.

Note.—The page measures 278 X 218. The water-mark on the last page (p. 29) is 1807; the water-mark on the original wrapper, "J.W. & B.B. 1806." A wrapper of the original sheets is inscribed, "This is the original Satire which L^d B. put into my hands. It was printed in the Country, where he had been staying. He added 110 lines before it was published. R.C.D." (B.M., E.G. 2028.)

II.

English Bards,/ And/ Scotch Reviewers./ A Satire./ I had rather be a kitten, and cry, mew!/ Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers./ Shakspeare./ Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true,/ There are as mad, abandon'd Critics too./ Pope./ London:/ Printed for James Cawthorn, British Library,/ No. 24, Cockspur Street./ [1809.] [12.

Note.—The words "Scotch Reviewers" on the Title are in Gothic characters. Facsimile of the Title-page faces p. xiv. of Poetical Works, 1898, vol. i.

III.

English Bards,/ And/ Scotch Reviewers;/ A Satire./ By/ Lord Byron./ I had rather be a kitten, and cry, mew!/ Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers./ Shakspeare./ Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true,/ There are as mad, abandon'd Critics too./ Pope./ Second Edition,/ With/ Considerable Additions and Alterations./ London:/ Printed for James Cawthorn, British Library, No. 24,/ Cockspur Street./ 1809./ [8.

Collation—

Half-title, one leaf, pp. i., ii.; Title (R. Printed by Deans & Co. Hart-Streeet, Covent Garden./), pp. iii., iv.; Preface to the Second Edition, pp. v.-vii.; Text (1050 lines), pp. 1-82; Postscript, pp. 83-85. The Imprint, as above, is at the foot of p. 85. The Advt. (In the Press,/ And speedily will be published,/ HENRY COUNT DE KOLINSKY, a Polish Tale./) is in the centre of p. [86].

Note.—The words "A Satire" on the Title, and the words "Scotch Reviewers" on the Half-title, are in Gothic characters.

IV.

English Bards,/ And/ Scotch Reviewers;/ A Satire./ By/ Lord Byron./ I had rather be a kitten, and cry, mew!/ Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers./ Shakspeare./ Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true,/ There are as mad, abandon'd Critics too./ Pope./ Third Edition./ London:/ Printed for James Cawthorn, British Library, No. 24,/ Cockspur Street./ 1810./ [8.

Note.—The Advt. of "The British Circulating Library, 24 Cockspur Street," etc., is dated March 30, 1810. The words "A Satire" and "London" on the Title, and the words "English Bards" on Half-title, are in Gothic characters.

V.

English Bards,/ And/ Scotch Reviewers;/ A Satire./ By/ Lord Byron./ I had rather be a kitten, and cry, mew!/ Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers./ Shakspeare./ Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true,/ There are as mad, abandon'd Critics too./ Pope./ Fourth Edition./ London:/ Printed for James Cawthorn, British Library, No. 24,/ Cockspur Street./ 1810./ [8.

Note.—The Advt. of the "British Circulating Library, 24, Cockspur Street," etc., is dated March 30, 1810. The words "Satire" and "London" on the Title, and the words "English Bards" on the Half-title, are in Gothic characters.

VI.

English Bards,/ And/ Scotch Reviewers;/ A Satire./ By/ Lord Byron./ I had rather be a kitten, and cry, mew!/ Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers./ Shakespeare/ Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true,/ There are as mad, abandon'd Critics too./ Pope./ Fourth Edition./ London:/ Printed for James Cawthorn, British Library, No. 24,/ Cockspur Street; and Sharpe and Hailes, Piccadilly./ 1811./ [8.

Note.—On the Title-page of another copy of this edition there is a period instead of a comma after "James Cawthorn." The word "Satire" on the Title, and the words "Scotch Reviewers" on the Half-title, are in Gothic characters.

Note (1).—The Half-title prefixed to the Title-page of the Fourth Edition of 1811, which precedes the Museum copy of the Fifth Edition, bears the MS. signature, "R.C. Dallas," and a blank leaf the following note: "This is one of the very few copies preserved of the suppressed edition, which would have been the Fifth. No Title-page was printed—the one prefixed was taken from the preceding edition."

Note (2)—Mr. S. Leicester Warren (Lord de Tabley) records the following MS. notes inscribed in a copy of the Fifth Edition, which had formerly belonged to James Boswell, jun., and was then in the possession of Mr. J.R.P. Kirby, of Bloomsbury Street:—

A. A note on the abortive duel between Jeffrey and Moore is dated November 4, 1811.

B. A note on the fly-leaf in the handwriting of James Boswell, jun.—

"This copy purports on the title-page to be the fourth edition, but is in truth the fifth. Having pointed out to Murray, the bookseller, a variation between the copy of the fifth edition and this, he borrowed it from me, that he might show it to Lord Byron to have the circumstance explained; that his lordship told him he had printed the fifth edition, but, before its publication, having repented of the work altogether, he determined to destroy the whole impression. But the printer, as he observed, must have retained at least this one copy, and, by putting a false title-page, had sold it as the fourth edition," etc.—Notes and Queries, 1887, Series V. vol. vii. pp. 203, 204.

Mr. Murray's copy of the Fifth Edition contains, on the fly-leaves at the beginning of the volume, MS. versions of (1) The Curse of Minerva, pp. ị-[xi.]; (2) The Answer to Fitzgerald's Epigram, written at the "Alfred," on English Bards, etc., p. [xv.]; and on p. xvi. the following MS. Title-page:—

English Bards/ and Scotch Reviewers; a/ Satire/ By Lord Byron./ I had rather be a kitten, and cry, mew!/ Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers./ Shakspere./ Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true,/ There are as mad, abandon'd critics too./ Pope./ Fifth Edition,/ Unpublished; with considerable additions./ London:/ Printed for James Cawthorne,/ Cockspur Street./ 1812./

At the end of the volume a MS. version of "Lines on the Removing Lady Jersey's Portrait from the Gallery of Beauties," is on pp. [85], [86], and a MS. version of "On a Recent Discovery, 1813," on p. [89].

P. xiv. is headed by the following MS. note: "Lord Byron has two copies of this work, R.C. Dallas, Esq., has likewise two copies, and Mr. Leigh Hunt one."

English Bards/ And/ Scotch Reviewers;/ A Satire./ By Lord Byron./ From the last London Edition./ I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew!/ Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers./ Shakspeare./ Such shameless bards we have; and yet 'tis true/ There are as mad, abandon'd critics too./ Pope./ New York:/ Published by A.T. Goodrich & Co., 124 Broad-/Way, Corner of Cedar-Street./ I. Seymour, print./ 1817;./ [12.

Note.—The text numbers 1050 lines, but lacks the Postscript. The misprint "ingenious" for "ingenuous youth," in footnote (p. 7) to line 56, which belongs to the Fourth Edition of 1811, and was corrected by Byron for the Fifth Edition, occurs in this edition.

XII.

English Bards, And/ Scotch Reviewers;/ A Satire./ Ode to the Land of the Gaul.—Sketch/ From Private Life.—Windsor/ Poetics, Etc./ By/ The Right Honorable/ Lord Byron./ Second Edition./ Paris:/ Published by Galignani/ At the French, English, Italian, German, and Spanish/ Library, No. 18, Rue Vivienne./ 1818./ [12.

Note.—The Text numbers 1052 lines. This edition follows the Fourth Edition of 1811. The misprint "ingenious" for "ingenuous" is in a footnote, p. 10. A Third Edition, identical with the Second, was issued in 1819.

XIII.

English Bards,/ And/ Scotch Reviewers;/ A Satire./ With Notes and Preface,/ By/ Lord Byron./ Brussels,/ Published at the English Repository of Arts, No. 602,/ Rue de L'Impratrice./ Printed by Demanet, Rue des Bogards./ 1819./ [8.

Note.—The Front. is "Lord Byron," "lith. par Toland." The Text numbers 1052 lines. This edition follows the Fourth Edition of 1811. The misprint "ingenious" is at the foot of p. 10.

XIV.

English Bards,/ And/ Scotch Reviewers;/ A Satire./ By/ The Right Honorable/ Lord Byron./ I had rather be a kitten, and cry, mew!/ Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers./ Shakspeare./ Such shameless Bards we have; and yet 'tis true,/ There are as mad, abandon'd Critics too./ Pope./ Geneva:/ Published by P.G. Ledouble,/ No. 24, Rue de la Cit./ 1820./ [12.

English Bards,/ and/ Scotch Reviewers./ A Satire./ By Lord Byron./ I had rather be a kitten, and cry, Mew!/ Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers./ Shakespeare./ Such shameless Bards we have; and yet, 'tis true,/ There are as mad, abandon'd Critics too./ Pope./ London:/ Benbow, Printer and Publisher, Byron's Head,/ Castle-Street, Leicester-Square./ 1823,/ [12.

Note.—The Text numbers 1050 lines. This edition follows the Third Edition of 1810.

XVI.

English Bards/ And/ Scotch Reviewers;/ A Satire./ By Lord Byron./ [Mottoes as above, six lines.] A New Edition,/ With a Life of the Author./ To which is added/ Fare Thee Well, A Poem./ Glasgow:/ Printed by James Starke,/ and sold by All the Booksellers./ 1824./ [12.

Collation—

Pp. xiv. + 15-52 + Fare Thee Well! pp. [53], [54].

Note.—The Text numbers 1050 lines, as in the Third Edition. The misprint "ingenious" for "ingenuous" occurs in a footnote to p. 16.

XVII.

English Bards/ and/ Scotch Reviewers:/ A Satire./ By Lord Byron./ [Mottoes as above, six lines ("Shakspeare").] A New Edition,/ With a life of the Author./ To which is added/ Fare Thee Well, A Poem./ Glasgow:/ Printed for M'Intosh & Co./ And sold by All the Booksellers./ 1825./ [12.

Collation—

Pp. xiv. + 34.

Note.—The Text numbers 1050 lines. This edition is differently paginated from the preceding, and the Notes are reset (the misprint "ingenious" is corrected), but the Text, Preface, and the "Life of the Author" seem to have been set up from the same type.

Note.—The Text numbers 1050 lines. The Notes are printed after the text, pp. 35-50. In Note 3 the misprint "ingenious" is retained. The English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers (Third Edition, of 1050 lines) was included in the British Satirist, Glasgow, 1826, 12, pp. 1-46, and formed part (pp. 139-178) of a collection of Satires, Gilford's Baviad and Mviad, etc., published by J.F. Dove, London, 1827, 12. The misprint "ingenious" has been corrected in both these issues.

XIX.

English Bards,/ And/ Scotch Reviewers,/ A Satire./ By/ Lord Byron./ I had rather be a kitten, and cry, mew,/ Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers./ Shakspeare./ Such shameless bards we have; and yet, 'tis true,/ There are as mad abandoned critics too. Pope./ A New Edition./ London:/ Printed by T. Kay, at the Egyptian Press, 1, Welbeck Street,/ Cavendish Square, For the Booksellers./ 1827./ [8

Pp. [1]-3. P. [4] is blank. A copy of this pamphlet in the British Museum is marked as "Privately printed for Lord Byron," and measures 237 x 173. The watermark is "J. GREEN, 1815."

Note.—The Text numbers 60 lines. Lines 1-24 are on p. [1]; lines 25-56 on p. 2; and lines 57-60 on p. 3. In line 28 "may" is printed "ḿay." Fare Thee Well was first published in The Champion, Sunday, April 14, 1816.

Note.—An editorial note (p. 24) states that the Ode "Oh, shame to thee" was first published in the Morning Chronicle, July 31, 1815, under the signature "Brutus." "It has been ascribed by many to the Author of the Pleasures of Hope." A second note (p. 30) apologizes for the inclusion of "Madame Lavalette" [first published in the Examiner, January 21, 1816], which "has appeared in some other Editions of these Poems."

Half-title, one leaf; Title, one leaf; Dedication as above; Advt., "The tale," etc.; Text, pp. 1-47. The Imprint, as above (No. i.), is in the centre of p. [48].

Note.—The Second Edition of the Giaour, published at the end of June or the beginning of July, numbers 816 lines. Note the misprints in third line of the motto, "O'er which" for "To which," and "fling" for "bring." The first edition of the Song, A Selection of the Irish Melodies, 1807, i. 45, and other editions read "bring."

III.

The Giaour,/ A Fragment of/ A Turkish Tale./ By Lord Byron./ "One fatal remembrance," etc. [Motto, four lines, as in the Second Edition]./ Moore./ Third Edition,/ With Considerable Additions./ London:/ Printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars,/ For John Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1813./ [8.

Note.—The Text numbers 1215 lines. The concluding note, "The circumstance," etc., is enlarged (p. 66) by nine lines: "I do not know"—"Hall of Eblis." The Dedication is wanting in the copy of the Fifth Edition in the British Museum.

VI.

The Giaour,/ etc./ Sixth Edition,/ etc./ 1813./ [8.

Collation—

Title, one leaf; Dedication; Advt.; Text, pp. 1-66.

Note.—The Text numbers 1215 lines. The Half-title is missing in the Museum copy.

VII.

The Giaour,/ A Fragment of/ A Turkish Tale./ By Lord Byron./ "One fatal remembrance," etc. [Motto, four lines, as in the First Edition, "bring" for "fling," etc.]./ Moore./ Seventh Edition, With some Additions./ London:/ Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars,/ For John Murray, Albemarle Street./ 1813./ [8.

[Note.—For the First Edition of Heaven and Earth, see The Liberal, No. II., pp. 165-206 (London, L. Hunt, 1822).]

Heaven and Earth,/ A Mystery;/ Founded on the Following Passage in Genesis,/ Chap. vi./ "And it came to pass ... that the sons of God saw the/ daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them/ wives of all which they chose."/ "And woman wailing for her Demon lover."/ Coleridge./ London:/ Benbow, Printer and Publisher, 252, High Holborn./ 1824./ [12.

Note.—This edition, printed by (?) W. Dugdale in (?) 1825, bears neither Title-page nor Imprint, and is bound up with The Bride of Abydos, printed for Thomas Wilson in 1825, and The Corsair, printed and published by W. Dugdale in 1825.

A Selection of/ Hebrew Melodies/ Ancient and Modern/ with appropriate Symphonies and accompaniments/ By/ I: Braham & I: Nathan/ the Poetry written expressly for the work/ By the Right Hon^ble^/ Lord Byron/ ent^d at Sta^rs^ Hall/ [Title-vignette, angel holding crown] 1^st^ Number/ Published and Sold by I: Nathan No. 7 Poland Street Oxford Str^t / and to be had at the principal Music and Booksellers/ Price one Guinea/ [1815] [fol.

[The Title-page is enclosed in an ornamental border, and below the words, "Drawn by Edward Blore" is the signature "I. Braham;" and below the words, "Engraved by W. Lowry," the signature "I. Nathan."]

Collation—

Part I.: Illuminated Dedication "To Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales," one leaf; Preface, signed "I. Braham, I. Nathan," and dated "London, April, 1815," one leaf; Index to the First Number, one leaf; Music and Words, pp. 1-64.

Part II.: Title (A Selection of,/ etc.... By the Right Honorable Lord Byron.)/ [Motto], "The harp the Monarch Minstrel swept," etc., five lines./ See Page 4./ Lord Byron./ 2^nd^ Number, Price 1 Guinea./ Ent^d at Stationers' Hall./ Published and Sold, etc./ Prickett scrip. et sculp./ [The Title-vignette is King David playing a harp with angel and tripod, engraved by H. Moses.] The title is signed "I. Nathan."

Collation—

Title, one leaf; Dedication, as above, one leaf; Index to the Second Number, one leaf; Music and Words, pp. 65-133.

Note.—The Cont. are identical with the preceding, save that the lines, "Francisca," a variant of Parisina (lines 15-28), are omitted; the lines From Job are inserted pp. 49, 50; and the stanzas "On the Death of Sir Peter Parker" (pp. 51-53) are printed at the end of the volume.

Advt. of issue (No. 22 of 100 numbered copies) of—Printers,/ Chiswick Press, Tooks Court,/ Chancery Lane, London./ signed (MS.) "Charles Whittingham & Co.," pp. i., ii.; Half-title (BYRON'S FUGITIVE PIECES), pp. iii., iv.; Title, one leaf, pp. v., vi.; Preface (editorial of facsimile), pp. vii.-x. + blank leaf + Half-title (FUGITIVE PIECES), one leaf + Dedication—"To/ Those Friends,/ At/ Whose Request They were printed,/ For whose/ Amusement or Approbation/ They are/ Solely Intended;/ These TRIFLES are respectfully Dedicated,/ by the/ Author."/ (R. As these POEMS were never intended to meet the public eye, no apology is necessary for the form in which they now appear. They are printed merely for the perusal of a few friends to whom they are dedicated; who will look upon them with indulgence; and as most of them were composed between the age of 15 and 17, their defects will be pardoned or forgotten, in the youth and inexperience of the WRITER.) + Text, pp. [1]-66; (the Imprint (Printed by S. and J. Ridge, Newark.) is at the foot of p. 66) + p. [67] (emblem-heraldic lion with shield and monogram, subscribed with the Imprint, Chiswick Press:—C. Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court,/ Chancery Lane./).

Contents-

On Leaving N...st...d p. [i]

To E. p. 3

On the Death of Young Lady, Cousin to the Author and very Dear p. 4 to him

To D. p. 5

To... p. 6

To Caroline p. 7

To Maria —— p. 10

Fragment of School Exercises, From the Prometheus Vinctus of p. 11 Oeschylus(sic)

Lines in "Letters of an Italian Nun," etc. p. 12

Answer to the above, addresse'd to Miss —— p. 13

On a change of Masters, At a Great Public School p. 14

Epitaph on a Beloved Friend p. 15

Adrian's Address to his Soul, when dying p. 16

Translation p. 16

To Mary p. 17

"When to their airy hall, my father's voice" p. 19

To —— p. 20

"When I hear you express an, affection so warm" p. 21

On a distant view of the Village and School of Harrow on The p. 23 Hill. 1806.

Thoughts Suggested by a College Examination p. 25

To Mary, on Receiving her Picture p. 28

On the Death of Mr. Fox, the following illiterate Impromptu p. 30 appeared in the Morning Post

To which the Author of these Pieces sent the subjoined Reply, p. 30 for insertion in the Morning Chronicle

To a Lady, who presented the Author a Lock of Hair, etc. p. 31

To a Beautiful Quaker p. 33

To Julia p. 36

To Woman p. 38

An Occasional Prologue, etc. p. 39

To Miss E.P. p. 41

To Tear p. 43

Reply to some verses of J.M.B. Pigot, Esq., on the Cruelty of p. 46 His Mistress

Granta, A Medley p. 49

To the Sighing Strephon p. 54

The Cornelian p. 57

To A —— p. 59

As the Author was discharging his Pistols in a Garden, Two p. 61 Ladies, etc.

Translation form Catullus: Ad Lesbiam p. 63

Translation of the Epitaph on Virgil and Tibullus by Domitius p. 64 Marsus

Imitation of Tibullus "Sulpitia ad Cerintum" Lib. Quart. p. 64

Translation from Cattulus: Luctus de Morte Passeris p. 65

Imitated from Catullus. To Anna p. 66

Note.—The original volume measures 8 ins. x 7 ins. The wrapper is of plain greenish-grey paper. The full Titles are given in the Table of Cont. or in the heading of the Poems in Poetical Works, 1898, vol. i. pp. xviii., etc. In the original issue the pages are numbered on the head of each page, and subscribed with a double rule. "Ornaments" are to be found on pp. [1], 3, 13, 14, 16, 40, 58, 60, 64, 66.

The signatures B (p. [1]) to S (p. 65) are in due sequence. The numbers at the head of the pages are subscribed with a double rule.

On leaving Newstead p. 1 On a distant view, etc. p. 4 To D. p. 7 Epitaph on a beloved Friend p. 8 A Fragment p. 10 Fragments of School Exercises p. 11 To E. p. 13 Reply to some verses of J.M.B. Pigot, Esq., etc. p. 14 To the sighing Strephon p. 17 The Tear p. 21 To Miss —— p. 26 Lines written in "Letters," etc. p. 28 Answer to the foregoing p. 29 The Cornelian p. 30 On the Death of a Young Lady p. 33 To Emma p. 35 To M.S.G. p. 38 To Caroline p. 41 To Caroline p. 43 To Caroline p. 46 Stanzas to a Lady with the Poems of Camoens p. 48 To Mary, on receiving her Picture p. 50 To Lesbia p. 52 To Woman p. 55 To M. p. 57 Lines addressed to a Young Lady p. 59 To M.S.G. p. 62 To a beautiful Quaker p. 64 To a Lady who presented the Author with a Lock of her hair p. 67

The "ornaments" of the Quarto reappear on pp. [1], 9, 25, 32. The numbers at the head of the pages are subscribed with a double rule. A facsimile of the Title-page faces p. x. of vol. i. of the Poetical Works, 1898.

III.

Hours of Idleness,/ A/ Series of Poems,/ Original/ And/ Translated,/ By George Gordon, Lord Byron,/ A Minor./

Note (1).—A facsimile of the Title-page (2) faces p. xii. of vol. i. of the Poetical Works, 1898. It has been alleged that large-paper copies of this edition were issued from the Newark press. It is certain that large copies (a copy in the British Museum, cut for binding, measures 220 X 122), printed on paper bearing a water-mark dated 1806, were thrown upon the market at an early period, but it has not been ascertained at what date or in what place they were printed. They are undoubtedly deliberate forgeries. They purport, even in respect of errata, to be identical with the genuine issue of 1807; but they were not set up from the same type, and it is inconceivable that a second issue, set up from different type and with slightly different ornaments, was printed by Ridge for piratical purposes. To cite a few obvious differences—in the title of the large-paper copies the first A of the word "TRANSLATED" is printed

[Greek: L ], and the Greek [Greek: n] in [Greek: ainee] and [Greek: neikei] appears as [Greek: u] (not [Greek: n] reversed); in the Errata on the reverse of p. xiii., [Page] "153 Note" is incorrectly given as "163 Note," and this slip on the part of the falsarius is more remarkable, as two other errata in the Errata are carefully reproduced; in the Greek motto on p. 22 the letter [Greek: r] twice appears as [Greek: s]; and, finally, the ornaments on pp. 1 and 187, though intended to be, are not identical. In the Museum copy a portrait of "Lord Byron, from a sketch taken on his leaving England," engraved by I. West, and "Published by V. Hone, Ludgate Hill, 1819," precedes the title-page, and, together with the binding, affords good, if not conclusive, proof that this copy was printed before 1820.

See, for a correspondence on these L.P. copies of 1807, the Athenum, June, 1898, pp. 694, 695.

See, too, for further interesting and conclusive evidence that the ornament on p. 187 of the L.P. copies was not printed from the Newark block, Newark as a Publishing Town, by T.M. Blagg, 1898, pp. 28-30.

Note (2).—An autograph note, dated May 20th, 1812, signed "Byron," is inserted on the fly-leaf of a large-paper copy in the Rowfant Library (Catalogue, 1886, p. 144).

Note.—A reproduction of Poems Original and Translated, Newark, 1808. The Front. (a sketch of Harrow-on-the-Hill) is engraved by Eastgate from a painting by H. Halsted, Esq. It is a reproduction (re-touched) of the Front. to the Newark Edition of 1808.

There were two issues of this edition (A and B). In A (Printed for Sherwin and Co. 24 Paternoster Row) the Front. is without letters; the past tenses and participles are printed "bloom'd," "mail-cover'd," etc.; and on p. 160 the Imprint, as above, is at the foot of p. 160. In B (Printed for W.T. Sherwin, etc.) the Front. is subscribed with the name of painter and engraver; the past tenses are printed "bloomed," etc., in full; and the Imprint (Sherwin, Printer,/ Paternoster Row./) is at the foot of p. 160.

VIII.

Hours of Idleness;/ etc./ Third Edition./ Paris: Published by Galignani,/ etc./ 1820./ [12.

Collation—

This edition is identical with that of 1819, No. vi. p. 252. The Cont. are printed at the end of the volume.

IX.

Hours of Idleness,/ A Series/ Of Poems,/ Original and Translated./ By a Noble Author./ Virginibus puerisque Canto./ Horace./ He whistled as he went for want of thought./ Dryden./ London:/ Benbow, Printer and Publisher, Castle Street,/ Leicester Square. 1822./ [12.

Hours of Idleness:/ A/ Series of Poems,/ Original and Translated./ By George Gordon, Lord Byron./ A Minor./ Paris:/ Published by A. and W. Galignani,/ At the French, English, Italian, German, and Spanish Library, No. 18, Rue Vivienne./ 1822./ [12.

Note.—A reissue of the Newark edition of 1808, but a distinct edition from those published by Galignani in 1819, 1820.

XI.

Hours of Idleness,/ A/ Series of Poems,/ Original and Translated./ By Lord Byron./ Virginibus puerisque canto.—Horace./ He whistled as he went, for want of thought.—Dryden./ A New Edition./ Glasgow.—Printed by J. Starke./ 1825./ [8.

Collation—

Title, one leaf; Preface, pp. i.-iii. (R. Cont.); Text, pp. 1-84.

Note.—This edition, a reissue of Hours of Idleness, Newark, 1807, was bound in a paper wrapper with ornamental border, uniform with "English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers—price sixpence."

Pp. xxxvi. + 196. The Imprint (Plummer and Brewis, Printers, Love Lane, Eastcheap.) is at the foot of p. 191.

Note.—The Fugitive Pieces include the two selections from Parisina included in Hebrew Melodies No. i., and three "original pieces of Lord Byron, which have never before appeared in print;" viz. "I speak not—I trace not," etc., "In the valley of waters," and "They say that hope is happiness."

Poems.

Poems./ By Lord Byron./ Second Edition/ London:/ Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-Street;/ By W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, St. James's,/ 1816./ [8.

Title, one leaf, pp. 3, 4; Text, pp. 5-31 + Note ("The first two Poems were last produced.—The other/ five follow in the order wherein they were written."/ April, 1816.), p. [32]. The Imprint (Hay and Turner, Printers, Newcastle Street, Strand.) is at the foot of p. [40].

Note.—The Half-title is missing in the Museum copy. The Note prefixed to "Waterloo" in the Morning Chronicle (March 15, 1816) is reprinted, together with the heading, "Said to be done into English Verse by R. S****, P.L. P.R. Master of the Royal Spanish Inqn.—etc., etc., etc."

Note.—The Text of the Fifteenth Edition is identical with the Text of the Sixth Edition (pp. 3-[32]), including Note and Imprint on p. [32]. The Curse of Minerva is on pp. 33-40. The Imprint, as above, is repeated on the foot of p. 40.

1. Fare Thee Well 2. A Sketch from Private Life 3. On the Star of "The Legion of Honour" 4. Ode 5. Waterloo 6. Madame Lavalette 7. Farewell to France 8. Adieu to Malta 9. The Curse of Minerva 10. Farewell to England 11. To my Daughter, etc 12. To the Lily of France. 13. Ode to the Island of St. Helena. 14. To ——. 15. Bright be the Place to thy Soul! 16. Stanzas for Music. 17. To ——. 18. Stanzas for Music. 19. To ——. 20. On Reading Lord Byron's Farewell to England.

To which is Prefixed,/ Memoirs of His Life./ Bristol:/ Printed for W. Sheppard, Exchange,/ And may be had of all the Booksellers./ 1816./ [12.

Note.—This edition contains the nine poems published by Hone (1816), four forgeries, six of the Poems published by Murray in 1816, and, with a separate pagination, the lines On Reading Lord Byron's Farewell to England ("———- Still my bosom's indignation").

Poems,/ on His/ Domestic Circumstances,/ By/ The Right Honourable/ Lord Byron:/ To which are added,/ Several Choice Pieces from His Lordship's Works./ "Lord BIRON.—By heaven I do love; and it hath taught me/ to rhyme, and to be melancholy; and here is part of my rhyme,/ and here my melancholy."/ SHAKESPEARE'S LOVE'S LABOUR LOST./ London:/ Printed for J. Limbird, 355, Strand, (East End/ of Exeter 'Change),/ By W. Sears, 45, Gutter Lane, Cheapside./ 1823/ [12.

Miscellaneous Poems,/ Including those on His/ Domestic Circumstances./ By Lord Byron./ To which are prefixed/ Memoirs of the Author, and a Tribute/ To his Memory/ By Sir Walter Scott./ London:/ Printed for John Bumpus, 85, Newgate Street;/ And R. Griffin, & Co., Glasgow./ 1824/

Note.—The collection numbers twenty-five poems, including the forgeries, Ode ("Oh, shame to thee," etc.); Madame Lavalette; Farewell to England; To my Daughter, etc.; Ode to—S^t Helena; To the Lily of France; The Enigma Ḥ; and three (genuine) stanzas from the lines, "Well, thou art happy," here entitled Song to Inez; and the lines To Jessy.

XII.

Miscellaneous Poems/ on His Domestic and Other/ Circum-stances./ By Lord Byron./ London:/ Printed By and for William Cole,/ 10 Newgate-Street./ 1825./ [12.

Collation—

Pp. 54. The Imprint (Printed by William Cole, 10, Newgate Street.) is at the foot of p. 54.

Note.—The edition contains twenty-nine pieces, viz. the twenty-five poems published by John Bumpus in 1824 (No. xl.), together with The Isles of Greece; Were my Bosom, etc.; Herod's Lament, etc.; and Lord Byron's Latest Verses ("On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year").

Hints from Horace.

Note.—Two sets of proofs of a portion of Hints from Horace, formerly the property of R.C. Dallas, are preserved in the British Museum (Eg. 2029). Proof A consists of 100 lines of the English translation (lines 173-272); Proof B, pp. [87]-128, consists of 272 lines of the English translation (lines 1-272) and (on opposite pages) 188 lines of the original Latin. These proof-sheets, which must have followed proofs of the Fifth Edition of English Bards, etc., are preceded by a Half-title, Hints from Horace (Gothic characters), and by the following subsidiary title:—

The publication of Hints from Horace had been entrusted by Dallas to Cawthorn in July-August, 1811. It may be gathered from various sources (Letters, 1898, ii. 24, 54, 56) that Byron was at work on the proofs as late as September 4; that by October 11 he had resolved to defer the publication of the Hints; and that, accordingly on October 13, 1811, "they stood still." It was not, however, till after the appearance of Childe Harold's, etc. (May-June, 1812) that Byron determined to suppress the already printed Fifth Edition of English Bards, and at the same time to abandon the publication of his two other Satires. At this time, says Dallas (Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron, 1898, p. 241), "the Hints from Horace was far advanced." In his Recollections, etc. (pp. 104-113), he gives, by way of a "fair specimen," 156 "lines of the still-unpublished poem; and, as these extracts are taken from the first 211 lines, and his text corresponds with proof B (see Poetical Works, 1898, i. 390, variants ii., iii.), it may be inferred that Dallas transcribed them from his fragmentary proof-sheets, and that the press was stopped at line 272. In 1830, in his Notices of the Life of Lord Byron (vol. i. pp. 263-269), Moore printed 165 lines of the "Paraphrase;" but his selections are drawn from lines 1-458, and it is evident that he had access to an original MS. (MS. M.), which is now in Mr. Murray's possession. The full text, which follows the same MS., was first published in vol. v. pp. 273-327 of the six-volume edition of 1831 (vide ante, No. xliii. of "Collected Editions").

The Irish Avatar.

Byron wrote the Irish Avatar at Ravenna, September 16, 1821. On the 17th he sent a copy of the verses to Moore, then resident at Paris; and on September 20 he desired Moore to get "twenty copies of the whole carefully and privately printed off." A copy is in the possession of Mr. H. Buxton Forman, C.B., and I am indebted to his kindness for the following description: "The pamphlet consists of four 8vo leaves, viz. half-title ('The Irish Avatar,' in bold capitals, with blank verse), pp. [1], [2] + Text, pp. 3-8. The poem begins on the third page with a dropped head, 'The Irish Avatar' again, and the first four verses. Pp. 4-7 contain six verses each, and p. 8 the remaining four, making up thirty-two in all. The date at the end of p. 8 is 'September 16, 1821.' There is no title-page proper; a headline, 'The Irish Avatar,' occurs on pp. 4-8, which pages are numbered in Arabic figures in the outside corners, and the thirty-two stanzas are also numbered in Arabic figures. The poem is printed on a half-sheet of a peculiar fine-ribbed paper." Twenty stanzas of The Irish Avatar were printed by Medwin in Conversations of Lord Byron, 1824, pp. 216-220, and in a second edition, 1824, pp. 332-338. In a "new edition" of the Conversations, etc., 1824, pp. 264-270, the entire poem, numbering thirty-two stanzas, was published for the first time in England (see Athenum, July 27, 1901). The Irish Avatar was first published by Murray in 1831 (Works, vi. 419-425).

The Island.

I.

The Island,/ or/ Christian and His Comrades./ By the/ Right Hon. Lord Byron./ London, 1823:/ Printed for John Hunt,/ 22, Old Bond Street./ [8.

Note.—A Second and a Third Edition, identical with the First, were published by John Hunt in 1823. The Island forms part (pp. 193-244) of a collection of Miscellaneous Poems, Hebrew Melodies, The Deformed Transformed, etc., printed and published by W. Dugdale, 23, Russell Court, Drury Lane, in 1825.

II.

The Island;/ or/ Christian and His Comrades./ By The Right Hon. Lord Byron./ Paris:/ Published by A. and W. Galignani,/ At the French, English, Italian, German, and Spanish Library,/ No. 18, Rue Vivienne./ 1823/ [12.

Note.—The Imprint (T. Davison, Lombard-Street,/ Whitefriars, London./) is at the foot of p. [20]. Twelve pp. of "Books Printed for John Murray," dated "August, 1817," are bound up with the Fourth Edition.

Half-title (Lara); Imprint (T. Davison, Lombard Street,/ Fleet-street.), one leaf; Title, one leaf; Second Half-title; Text, pp. 8-70. The Imprint (T. Davison, Lombard-street,/ Whitefriars, London./) is in the centre of p. [72]. In other copies the Text ends at p. 70, and a note on Section xxiv., Canto II. pp. 71-74, concludes the volume. The Imprint is not repeated.

Note.—The First Edition was issued with another title-page (B): Manfred,/ A / Dramatic Poem./ "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,/ "Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." / By Lord Byron./ London:/ John Murray, Albemarle-Street./ 1817./ 8.

There is no half-title in the Museum copy of this alternative First Edition.

II.

Manfred,/ etc./ Second Edition,/ etc./ 1817./ [8.

Note.—The Second Edition is identical with the alternative form (B) of the First Edition. There is no Imprint on p. 80. An Advt. of "Poems by the Right Hon. Lord Byron" is on p. [82].

III.

Manfred,/ A/ Dramatic Poem./ "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,/ Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."/ By Lord Byron./ Philadelphia:/ Published by M. Thomas./ J. Maxwell, Printer./ 1817./ [12.

Note.—Manfred./ A Dramatic Poem./ By Lord Byron./forms part (pp. 175-[216]) of a volume Printed for Thomas Wilson, Oxford Street./ 1825. 12. The Imprint (Printed by W. Dugdale, etc.), as above, is at the foot of p. [216].

V.

Manfred,/ A/ Dramatic Poem./ "There are more things in heaven and earth,/ Horatio,/ "Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."/ By Lord Byron./ Brussels:/ Printed at the British Press./ [8.

Note.—I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Leonard L. Mackall, of Berlin, for the substance of the following note on this work:—

"Pages 213-233 of the Anmerkungen" are devoted to an essay on the play as a whole. This essay is evidently the "Appendix to an English Work," to which Byron refers in the letter accompanying the suppressed Dedication to Marino Faliero. "In the Appendix to an English Work, lately translated into German, and published at Leipzig, a judgment of yours upon English poetry is quoted as follows: 'That in English poetry great genius, universal power, a feeling of profundity, with sufficient tenderness and force are to be found, but that altogether these do not constitute poets,'" etc., etc. (see Poetical Works, 1901, v. 340, 341, and Letters, 1900, v. 100-103). The originals of the Dedication and Letters were conveyed to Goethe by John Murray the third, in 1830 (? 1831) (see Goethe-Jahrbuch, 1899, xx. pp. 31-35, where the "Dedication" is printed in full for the first time), and are preserved at Weimar in the "red portfolio" (cf. Eckermann, March 26, 1826), in which Goethe kept all his papers connected with Byron. The "judgments" quoted by Byron through "an Italian abstract" from Wagner's Appendix (pp. 217-218) there read inaccurately as follows: "In der Englischen Poesie," sagt Goethe, "man findet durchaus einen grossen, tchtigen, weltgebten Verstand, ein tiefes, zartes, Gemth, ein vortreffliches Wollen, ein leidenschaftliches Wirken ... das alles zuzammengenommen macht noch keinen Poeten ... nach dieser Ansicht zeigen die meisten Englischen Gedichte einen dstern Ueberdruss des Lebens." These sentences, which should be read in the light of the context, will be found in Goethe's Dichtung und Wahrheit, Th. iii. Buch. 13 (1814, now Wirke, Weimar ed. xxviii. 213, 214), the book (Aus meinem Leben, Dichtung und Wahrheit), which is held up to ridicule in the Edinburgh Review, June, 1816, vol. xxvi. pp. 304-317.